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Missing desktop icons in Windows 8

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For some odd reason I seem to be missing only two of my desktop icons on my Windows 8 desktop. These are not system icons such as the recycle bin and computer ( I know you can enable them through Personalize ). The two icons I am missing are a folder and
a powershell .ps1 file.

The weird part is, any new file I add will appear, but these two will not even though they are indeed there. If I do a directory listing of my desktop I can clearly see the files, also I can see them when browsing to my user folder and clicking on Desktop.

Anyone have any clue to why this is happening? I am thinking this may be some bug with RDPing to my machine from home. Seems like all of my icons were out of place this morning. Two of my icons were completely off-screen (close enough to where I could drag
them back). The other two seem to be casualties..

I have 3 monitors so when I RDP in my screen's all scrunch into one. This happened in Windows 7 as well but I never lost my icons.

I have already tried all that stuff Right click on the desktop place mouse over the view option in the menu that appears Select Show Desktop Icons to place a check mark next to it Problem solved. It is not working for me at all.

Temporarily choose Duplicate Display then change back to single display and Icons may reappear on main display. (It worked for me.) The Show Desktop selection was already in place on my machine and toggling it does not fix this issue.

The best fix would be on MS's end. Removing the extended display from my laptop inconsistently clobbers the Icon positions on the desktop.

Since I park all my Icons on the main desktop (not on the extended display) there is no excuse for the OS to move the Icons to the extended display ESPECIALLY when the display is not present.

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